Friday, January 21, 2011

Brrr...mont

We're getting some decent mileage in while visiting my folks in Vermont. I'm having fun showing Chris some of my old dirt road routes. The one above is in Barnet. It has been COLD though!! The blood has definitely thinned since living in coastal California. ;-)

1/19 - 9 miles on quiet, snowy dirt roads in Barnet Center.1/20 - 7 miles of same in North Danville. Shoveled my parents' roof.1/21 - 8 miles on McLaren & Somers Hill Roads in West Barnet.1/22 - 8.5 miles snowshoeing on the Rattle River Trail (AT) in the White Mtns. Getting colder...1/23 - Cold. We're taking the day off! Went out for a nice breakfast in Gorham.1/24 - Minus 20 this morning. Waited until it "warmed up" to minus 4 before setting out on a 7-mile loop in Danville - down a dirt road, through a covered bridge, and back on hardpacked snowmobile trails. Beautiful, crystal clear views of the Whites ~40 miles away - Moosilauke, Franconia Ridge & Twin Range, all the way up to the Presidentials. Haven't been in temps this cold since Denali '08 & haven't run with a face mask in, oh... about 10 years. Nuts!

6 comments:

Just saw your schedule. Coyote 2 Moon sounds like a beautiful, but very tough course (and something in the back of my head keeps whispering "Hardrock... someday, you want to do Hardrock"). I just might see you at the Black Hills!

After reading your doing the NH 4's in 5 days, I wondered what the equivalent would be here: the 13 MN 2000s. Except maybe for one, they might all be possible in one day.